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Consumer confidence has surpassed expectations in December and increased by the most in years, good news for the economy heading into the new year.
Country. what are we to make of all of this? >> we make that it's a wild wild friday, but let's step back for just a moment. the president is making a gigantic bet. this re-election depends on a strong economy, the democrats nominating somebody out of the mainstream or depicted as out of the mainstream in the american people and doing something to rehabilitate his strength among suburbans who deflected to the democrats in 2018. friday raised the stakes on the economy. there's a lot of good in the economy. democrats talk about it. you wonder whether they are fear ing for the economy or hoping f...
Country. what are we to make of all of this? >> we make that it's a wild wild friday, but let's step back for just a moment. the president is making a gigantic bet. this re-election depends on a strong economy, the democrats nominating somebody out of the mainstream or depicted as out of the mainstream in the american people and doing something to rehabilitate his strength among suburbans who deflected to the democrats in 2018. friday raised the stakes on the economy. there's a lot of good in the economy. democrats talk about it. you wonder whether they are fear ing for the economy or hoping f...
Country. what are we to make of all of this? >> we make that it's a wild wild friday, but let's step back for just a moment. the president is making a gigantic bet. this re-election depends on a strong economy, the democrats nominating somebody out of the mainstream or depicted as out of the mainstream in the american people and doing something to rehabilitate his strength among suburbans who deflected to the democrats in 2018. friday raised the stakes on the economy. there's a lot of good in the economy. democrats talk about it. you wonder whether they are fear ing for the economy or hoping f...
Polling standpoint is that to turn around that recession mentality of the voter to a growth mentality, to be able to get the consumer confidence up, you basically have to have six solid months of nothing but good economic news before they reach that point. that window has closed. one of the things that was right in terms of what the obama administration tried to do coming out of the state of the union message was saying that we're only going to talk about jobs and the economy, and then they talked about health care for 2 1/2 months, now they have the storm, they have the stock market, they hav...